Weekly food shop - latest amounts your spen

[Randomamsi]

A friend shops at Aldi and Farm Foods for family of 4 and tells me she does food shop for £60 -£75 a week.

She batch cooks a lot, uses frozen fruit and veg and not too much meat so maybe its true but it just seems so incredibly low!!

Some of my food bills have been nearer £200 in recent months so I've been feeling like I'm doing something wrong after speaking to her.

What are you spending each week?

Single and around £60-70pw

£40pw for two adults. Mainly veggie, occ meat and fish when reduced.

Not loyal, shop to offers/deals/apps on both adult accounts. Mainly use sainsburys (in app nectar deals), but peruse all the others too. Also love farmfoods.

Buy in bulk or on offer. Meal plan. Batch cook. Bulk out with lentils / beans / veg / nutritional Yeast/ oats / pearl barley etc. Use freezer well.

Buy discounted gift cards to use or cashback debit/credit cards. Use Trolley App & Hotukdeals. Pick up lots of reduced items & adjust accordingly. We eat a healthy well balanced diet.

I spent £39 this week for two adults. My house is pretty well stocked currently though. Think I spent £27 last week because we’ve been bringing the freezer levels down.

I make my own sourdough and 99% of everything else. I make all of our cakes and granola bars and I buy the cheap cuts - chicken drums or leg portions are only £1.90 in M&S and do us up to 3 meals a box (1 dinner and 2 lunches each usually). I buy large dried bags of chickpeas and soak them overnight - I could make 100 falafels from a £5 bag and keep them in the freezer for a quick meal with salad.

I keep a Kakebo (spending notebook) and track daily outgoings.
For a family of 3 adults eating breakfast, lunch and dinner mostly from scratch, no alcohol, plus toiletries and cleaning it’s an average of €175 a week so £140.

I think those people saying far lower aren’t counting free school meals or food bought outside the supermarket like takeaway or coffee shops.

About a £100 for two adults per week (so around £450 per month). Includes work lunches and cleaning / basic hygiene products, like shower gel, toothpaste, laundry liquid etc. No alcohol tho! I feel I try shop quote savvy, and this could easily be a lot more.

Are we talking just food or all the other bits that come with a supermarket shop? Ours averages £160 per week, but that includes cleaning/laundry bits, some wine/beer and dog food. There is me, DH and 2 DCs, plus the dog. I spend approx £120 in Aldi and the rest alternating between Home Bargains or Tesco for branded stuff depending on what’s on offer.

We eat meat and the DCs and DH are big on snacks, although the DCs will snack on fruit/veg as well as the other kind. I try to make a rough meal plan and cook from scratch where possible and buy a ton of fresh fruit and veg each week, plus the snacks! Freezer is always bursting since lockdown i’m scared of running out of anything.

2 adults, a 3 year old and 1 year old. We don’t buy alcohol in the food shop (DH will grab a bottle of wine if he fancjes a glass as and when), no big bags of crisps etc and we can’t get it below £180 a week.

I’ve been paying about £100 a week recently for me and my 13 year old. It’s £100 when I need to add loo roll and washing pods etc. I have been adding extras for Christmas aswell. I do buy frozen onions and veg, and buy chicken breast and freeze it. I freeze most of my meat otherwise it would get wasted. In all honesty recently I realised how little I eat as I’ve been home waiting to start my new job. So this weeks shopping is reduced down to what we really need and extras as she’s off school. I could probably do it for £70 if I didn’t need extras xx

2 adults, 2 teens probably £250 a week but we have special dietary requirements plus major fussy eating ND DC, where tolerated foods change all the time & are often really expensive. We also buy very good quality meat which increases costs.

That doesn't include DH buying lunch at work or DC buying food at college. Also excludes pet stuff. We don't drink or eat out/get takeaways.

My shopping bill fluctuates depending on whether I use things from well stocked freezer. I'm trying to empty it a bit ATM so not spending as much in supermarkets. Generally though for 2 adults (1 vegetarian) and 2 teen boys I spend £200 including toiletries and cat food for 2 cats. I teen also either buys lunch at college or meal deals 3 days but he likes to choose his own lunch. DH and I also eat out 1 breakfast and 1 lunch/dinner each week on average.

2 adults and 2 children (5 & 2).

I have a weekly Tesco food delivery on a Sunday which costs between £70 - £110.

Mid week food top up for fresh fruit and kids snacks.(waiteose or aldi), usually around £20 to £30.

Then on a Saturday we do a weekend food shop typically at Waitrose £60 to £70 this usually includes alchol.

We will typically also have lunch out at least one day at the weekend, quite often both days.

We could easily get the cost down if we needed to by not splurging at at Waitrose at the weekend and not having lunch out.

it absolutely has gone up, a year ago, 3 adults, a dog
could be £65 a week
now it is about double that.

I spent £152.60 at Aldi yesterday for a family of 5, the amount is etched on my brain because I told the kids not to eat everything in 3 days because I’m no longer doing top up shops!
We get our clothes washing stuff in bulk so it didn’t include that or the dog/cat food we use. I also put £10 a week on our sons lunch account.
I cook from scratch everyday bar 1 because of sports clubs. We don’t eat out really as a family (take picnics) and rarely have takeaways. One bottle of wine this week due to needing it for cooking.

In September I spent £705. 4 adults, 2 children. That sounds a lot but it’s still under £4 per person per day for all meals, snacks, and drinks.
This month so far we’re on £378.70, down to 3 adults as dc1 is back at university. I can probably just do a small shop next week then a big shop the week after. Will still probably be £650 for the month though!

September i spent £600
very full freezer and plenty of spare food for emergencies tbh

How do you keep it so low??

Yeah I'm finding it hard to believe to be honest, maybe she spends that then does a top up as that can't be it.

I think she buys a lot of veg for her batch cooking from Farm Foods which dies save a lot though

It’s only me and a 9 year old DD. Spend between £50-£80 a week depending on what is needed. I batch cook in the slow cooker so some weeks we eat entirely from the freezer as once I get to 6 or so frozen portions I use them up. We don’t eat large portions and a curry or bolognaise will get 3 nights worth of meals (I freeze portions rather than eat the same things 3 nights in a row!). A roast chicken lasts almost all week. I clearly benefit from there only being 2 people who don’t eat a lot but can absolutely see how another adult and a couple of teenagers would triple my current bill.

That's interesting about portion sizes. I think my friend and her family don't eat massive portions so maybe this is a factor too. When you have growing teenagers, they eat everything in sight!

2 adults plus keeping someone in long term care in toiletries and treats - £125

uk average spend is 35-45 per person per week
so myself and DD we spend approx 320 a month plus £40 on school lunch so we are at top end but it does include all cleaning, laundry, toilet paper and basic toiletries like hand soap toothpaste shower gel shampoo etc ( not skincare )

so a family of 4 would be around 140-180 a week
if you have little kids food would be less but if you include cleaning supplies and nappies it would be more again

Main shop at Morrisons. 3 adults and 3 cats so probably £75-80 on the main shop
Then top ups usually milk and bread another £10?

£120ish a week. Two adults, one 5yo and one 1yo. No alcohol but lots of meat/fish and of course the youngest is still in nappies.

€120/ week when in France, £150/ week when in England. 2 adults.

no alcohol (teetotal)
dietary intolerances requiring more expensive items
includes all cleaning and some hygiene products
almost never eat out